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Irma Vep / Dacía Films présente ; avec la participation de Canal+ ; écrit et réalisé par Olivier Assayas ; produit par Georges Benayoun.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 033 684 disc 1-2 + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1074.
- Criterion collection ; 1074
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture industry--Drama.
- Motion picture industry.
- Visitors, Foreign--France--Drama.
- Visitors, Foreign.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--Drama.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- France.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Show business films.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (99 min.) : sound, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded leaf : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
- Edition:
- Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Criterion Collection, [2021]
- Language Note:
- Feature: in French with English subtitles. Some bonus features in English.
- System Details:
- DVD, wide screen (1.66:1); 5.1 surround, region 1.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- 5.1 Dolby digital
- video file
- DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- A Hong Kong action-movie star arrives in Paris to play the latex-clad lead in a remake of Louis Feuillade's classic silent crime serial Les vampires. What she finds is a behind-the-scenes tangle of barely controlled chaos as egos clash, romantic attractions simmer, and an obsessive director drives himself to the brink to realize his vision.
- Participant:
- Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Nathalie Richard.
- Notes:
- Title from disc surface.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.
- Wide screen (1.66:1).
- Special features: new interview with Assayas ; behind-the-scenes ; interview from 2003 between Assayas and critic Charles Tesson ; interview from 2003 with actors Maggie Cheung and Nathalie Richard ; "Musidora, the Tenth Muse" a 2013 documentary on the actor who originated the role of Irma Vep ; "Les vampires: hypnotic eyes" the sixth episode in Louis Feuillade's 1916 silent-film serial ; a 2020 address on the state of cinema by Assayas ; "Man Yuk: a portrait of Maggie Cheung" 1997 short film by Assayas ; black-and-white rushes for the film ; essay by critic Aliza Ma.
- Contains:
- Container of: Irma Vep (Motion picture)
- Container of: Musidora, the Tenth Muse (Motion picture)
- Container of: Les vampires (Motion picture). Hypnotic eyes.
- Container of: Man Yuk (Motion picture).
- ISBN:
- 9781681438276
- 1681438275
- OCLC:
- 1240182061
- Publisher Number:
- 715515258210
- CC3245DDVD The Criterion Collection
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